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Denver County Clostridium difficile Trends and Associated Risk Factors 2011-2013
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Clostridium difficile (CD), a gram-negative, anaerobic, sporeforming bacterium causes symptoms ranging from mild to severe diarrhea and may result in death. Approximately 75% of CDI cases have symptom onset outside of health care settings.… read more… and residence in long-term-care facilities. Nationally, CO-CA cases have increased from 2.8/100,000 person in 1993 … (HCFO), Community Onset-Healthcare Facility Associated (CO-HCFA), and Community Onset-Community Associated (CO-CA) CDI in Denver County from 2011 - 2013 and describe … -
Stakeholder Perspectives of Biosurveillance: a Qualitative Analysis
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For more than a decade, biosurveillance systems (and more recently BioSense) have been employed in the United States. Efforts to drastically expand these surveillance capacities have been a national priority given concerns … read more… Management. Feds Fund Public Health Links; 2008.http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/ news/NHIN25932-1.html Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
Secrets of My Success (and Failures): Productive Practitioner/Researcher Collaboration
Content Type: Webinar
Two public health practitioners will describe their experiences collaborating with University researchers to develop and evaluate new informatics tools for public health. They will identify factors that led to the successes and failures in those… read more… ! Catalog of PH business processes ! Problem Bank (coi-EPHI) ! Catalog of PH informatics challenges ! http://www.phconnect.org/group/CoiePHI ! Standards & … -
Detection of a Vaccine-preventable Reportable Disease: Comparison of Physician Reporting vs. an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System
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Communicable diseases are underreported by physicians, especially diseases without laboratory tests. The goals of our study were to determine reporting levels for clinical chickenpox, describe clinical data elements common to chickenpox, and assess… read more… system that provides care to over 25% of Denver, CO. All outpatient clinic visits with ICD-9 chickenpox codes …